It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
SUSAN SONTAGIn the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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